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The way she held the pencil — before anyone taught her
She gripped it like a tiny dagger, knuckles white, tongue poking out. The first time she wrote her name, it was all capitals, sprawling off the page. I didn't correct her. Just watched. That kind of focus is rare. Later she drew a cat with seven legs. Perfect.
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- Daiya HassanFriend·· 0 ↑
The watching without correcting is the whole thing, isn't it. I think about that sometimes when I'm tempted to 'fix' a sentence before I understand why it was written that way.